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The Definitive Guide to Tech and CarsFri, 09 Dec 2016 17:18:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7By: Maria Fe Camaya O'Neillhttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169810
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:07:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169810True, to a point. Where Apple will have a hard time competing is with graphics. For some games and the casual gamer this won’t matter much but the serious gamer will want the best graphics they can get. Your playing on a 1080p( or better ) set after all not a tablet. I do think it’s possible that Apple could have a drive installed on the TV it’s self to play high end games and bluerays for that matter but to ask developers to make high end games heavy on the graphics will only work if you can download and store the whole game on the set. Streaming would be a huge headache that would require a dedicated server for each game title. Besides, Apple doesn’t need develpers to make the games, the big titles are already out there. Apple just needs to get those games on their TV and by installing a drive and the processing power they can bypass the xbox and ps.
]]>By: Stephan Lehttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169734
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:05:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169734if apple puts apps on TV’s, developers will find a way to make awesome games. and apple doesn’t need to compete head to head with consoles to take away customers from the gaming consoles. look at portable gaming consoles from nintendo and sony. apple never tried to directly compete with them, but nintendo and sony portable sales are declining and gaming on mobile devices is soaring.

i think the same thing could easily happen with living room consoles, because apple can both grow the casual gaming market and steal casual gaming customers from traditional consoles, eating away at their customer base slowly. and as apple improves the TV hardware through each revision, there’s a good chance that big AAA titles and hardcore gamers could abandon dedicated consoles as well.

]]>By: Maria Fe Camaya O'Neillhttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169695
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:08:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169695“Apple will make iTV far more intuitive than any TV we’ve ever known” That is so funny, you almost had me pee my pants. You turn it on and you change chanels, how much ‘more’ intuitive does it get? lol. Now if you ment that Apple will make their smart TV more intuitive than the competitions, well then you might make some sense.
Forget about gaming with apps. There may be some games people might want to try on a TV sized screen but with the ps4, xbox720 and the awsome gaming experience that go with them just around the corner theres simply no way Apple can compete with console games.
a la carte deals sound great but this is going to be a tuff sell for broadcasters until Apple can put their TV’s in millions of homes. So that leaves people who already own Apple products the responsability for buying these TV’s so they can connect and share, via the cloud, content on their devices with the new TV. I know that you can already share stuff a number of different ways between TV’s and devices of all sorts not just Apples but the idea is that Apple will make it even more easy than it is already, thats supposed to be the motivation for buying a new TV? If thats the case then i don’t see alot of sales here, Apple will need to do more.
Apple needs to attract other customers besides their own thats why i think your likely to see things like super high resolution screens like the 4K screens coming out at CES this year. Also tiny bezels and other unique ideas such as intergrated blueray player and or pvr built in to the TV. They really need to do these kinds of things because connectivity alone won’t do it, it’s already so easy to connect to a smart TV any devices you want.
]]>By: Jon Garretthttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169649
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:49:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169649at least my battery works, I my outgoing calls are not muted, I dont have an echo on my incoming calls and NO insert SIM error message like on your latest piece of iCrap 4S.

Alright, let’s say you’re like me and you have an iPhone, an iPad and a MacBook Pro. Well why not complete the products with an iTV. Chances are that you will like the design and you know that it’s a quality product with some of the latest leading technology in it. You already see a lot of the small benefits with Apple TV built in to what would be boiler plate for the iTV.

I’m pretty sure most of us would agree that we use our TVs on a regular (daily) basis. The fact is that TVs, like phones and computers (and now tablets) are a HUGE part of our lives. And it’s pretty well known that Apple has a knack for creating fresh innovative products that make our lives simpler, entertaining and more enjoyable.

Apple will make the iTV far more intuitive than any TV we’ve ever known.

If there is one thing in life that people are the most lazy with, it’s the TV. Apple’s going to come up with ways to interact with the user in such a way that the user will have what they most want to watch on iTV with the least amount of effort. Remember water flows to the lowest point.

Notice that I also haven’t mentioned anything to do with games. No need to discuss, the possibilities there are pretty much endless.

Ok, so my point is that it really doesn’t matter if Apple gets “a la carte” deals done right away with broadcasters. All Apple really needs to do is make a product that everyone wants (see iPad & iPhone). Once Apple sells a LARGE amount of iTVs, they will be in a much better position to bargain with broadcasters.

We all know that Apple has already changed many industries. Why not mess around with the cable companies. I don’t know about you, but paying over $100/month for cable is absurd, but I pay it.

I can imagine Apple setting up deals to eventually allow the user to sign up for individual broadcasters, like FX, AMC, TNT, etc.

I’d much rather pay for broadcast stations that I use, rather than pay $100+ when I maybe (at most) watch 5% of the total available channels.

The main reason why no one wants to do “a la carte” is because it’s not going to pay off for the individual broadcasters to upset a cable provider this early in the game. However, it will pay off when Apple has 20-30 million iTVs in homes. Give or take, that’s about when the individual broadcasters will come out and shake hands with Apple.

Apple needs an audience before they can make industry disrupting deals. Watch what they do with the iPad now that it’s in ~50+ million hands. HUGE deals are on the way for their iBookstore.

What Apple knows and what most of us don’t, is that iTV will turn Apple into the first $1 Trillion Market Cap company.

]]>By: Jeffhttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169561
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:09:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169561Selling an iTV on its own, without “a la carte” deals would still put the TV industry on its head.

How you ask?

Alright, let’s say you’re like me and you have an iPhone, an iPad and a MacBook Pro. Well why not complete the products with an iTV. Chances are that you will like the design and you know that it’s a quality product with some of the latest leading technology in it. You already see a lot of the small benefits with Apple TV built in to what would be boiler plate for the iTV.

I’m pretty sure most of us would agree that we use our TVs on a regular (daily) basis. The fact is that TVs, like phones and computers (and now tablets) are a HUGE part of our lives. And it’s pretty well known that Apple has a knack for creating fresh innovative products that make our lives simpler, entertaining and more enjoyable.

Apple will make the iTV far more intuitive than any TV we’ve ever known.

If there is one thing in life that people are the most lazy with, it’s the TV. Apple’s going to come up with ways to interact with the user in such a way that the user will have what they most want to watch on iTV with the least amount of effort. Remember water flows to the lowest point.

Notice that I also haven’t mentioned anything to do with games. No need to discuss, the possibilities there are pretty much endless.

Ok, so my point is that it really doesn’t matter if Apple gets “a la carte” deals done right away with broadcasters. All Apple really needs to do is make a product that everyone wants (see iPad & iPhone). Once Apple sells a LARGE amount of iTVs, they will be in a much better position to bargain with broadcasters.

We all know that Apple has already changed many industries. Why not mess around with the cable companies. I don’t know about you, but paying over $100/month for cable is absurd, but I pay it.

I can imagine Apple setting up deals to eventually allow the user to sign up for individual broadcasters, like FX, AMC, TNT, etc.

I’d much rather pay for broadcast stations that I use, rather than pay $100+ when I maybe (at most) watch 5% of the total available channels.

The main reason why no one wants to do “a la carte” is because it’s not going to pay off for the individual broadcasters to upset a cable provider this early in the game. However, it will pay off when Apple has 20-30 million iTVs in homes. Give or take, that’s about when the individual broadcasters will come out and shake hands with Apple.

Apple needs an audience before they can make industry disrupting deals. Watch what they do with the iPad now that it’s in ~50+ million hands. HUGE deals are on the way for their iBookstore.

What Apple knows and what most of us don’t, is that iTV will turn Apple into the first $1 Trillion Market Cap company.

]]>By: Jayhttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169511
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:49:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169511…or the fragmentation, glitches, force-quits, and blatant disregard for a HIG that is the android experience.
]]>By: Techiehttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169506
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:36:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169506If Apple is making a television, they will source an LG platform, put it in an Apple case, bolt in the Apple-TV and charge twice what the competing product AND an Apple TV would cost. They won’t sell many except to the most extreme of fans.
]]>By: guesthttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169504
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:23:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169504What a dumb @ss article
]]>By: guesthttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169501
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:18:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169501Wow! The grammar really is horrible…
]]>By: TheOnlyGoodPaulIsRuPaulhttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169496
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:08:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169496This article has atrocious grammar and sentence structure. Watching TV must be damaging to your cognitive abilities.

]]>By: johnhttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169488
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:42:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169488Agree. Technologically ignorant people will never know the freedom they are missing out on by going with a more open source platform like Android.
]]>By: Mkie Connershttps://www.slashgear.com/smart-tv-set-to-explode-at-ces-2012-06206838/#comment-169486
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:40:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=206838#comment-169486Apple is pretty late to the game… and if it’s made by Apple, you can bet it will be the most expensive brand out there and not necessarily the best. Also why would they want to cannibalize their Apple TV offering?

Still, there are people that will pay premium prices to have that glowing Apple logo… go figure…